Need a Little Help

FBomb · April 3, 2018

Hi, I'm looking into building a server to keep at home and I'd like to have one for a few reasons. I'd like to be able to back up my Laptop on the go because I am an Owner Operator of an 18 wheeler and everything that has to do with my business is on my laptop. 99% of the time I fall asleep watching YouTube at night so what I would like to do is be able for my laptop to upload new files (or anything I've edited) to the server sometime in the night. I'd upload the initial backup on day one and If I change anything, that night my laptop would send it to the server. I'd also like to have all my media hosted on it as well, I rip a lot of blue rays to my laptop because it's easier than just keeping all the discs in my truck. Is this something possible and/or realistic? I'm afraid if I were to ever get into an accident and my laptop is broken, I'd lose all my data on this HDD. I do have a backup on a seagate 1TB drive here on the truck but if that were lost too I'd be pretty SOL. So I'd like to have the server for keeping a backup and keeping it updated on a regular basis. TIA!

LienusLateTips · April 3, 2018

Budget? Country?

How much storage do you need?

FBomb · April 3, 2018

I'm hoping to keep my budget as low as possible. And I'm in America. Tennessee, to be more specific.

AbsoluteFool · April 5, 2018

You want to have a server in your truck? Or do you want a server at your house?

Anyways, i would recommend twice the storage that you already use, possibly even more as you want to store your media on it. If you want to host it at your house you should check if you have a static public IP or else get dynamic DNS.

Perhaps a FTP server along the other stuff so you can upload your media?

prgm0 · April 5, 2018

3 hours ago, AbsoluteFool said:

You want to have a server in your truck? Or do you want a server at your house?

Anyways, i would recommend twice the storage that you already use, possibly even more as you want to store your media on it. If you want to host it at your house you should check if you have a static public IP or else get dynamic DNS.

Perhaps a FTP server along the other stuff so you can upload your media?

Basically thats all you need for what you want to do, connect your laptop to your FTP-Server at night and upload the data you want. By using dynamic DNS or your static IP you could do that from wherever you are. Maybe also setup OpenVPN so that nobody else can reach your FTP-Server except you.